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June 23, 2015

Regular visitors to The Mad House will know that I am a huge fan of Brendan Young and Vanessa Battaglia, the husband and wife team behind the Eccentric (their capital E) British Design House Mineheart. You can see their wonderful trompe l’oeil bookshelf wallpaper in the images above, which I bought five years ago and…

September 20, 2012

Twin brothers Antony and Richard Joseph launched Joseph Joseph in 2002 selling innovative and stylish kitchenware. Their clever folding Chop2Pot board and Nest, a set of stacking bowls including a colander, sieve and juicer, take everyday objects and somehow make them better in ways that you wouldn’t have thought necessary – until you use…

June 6, 2012

Johnny Egg has never had a day’s training in his life. Yet his furniture is stocked in the prestigious London store, Heals, and has featured in numerous glossy magazines. He has never advertised his wares, but works constantly as new clients approach him, rather than him having to seek them out. As he puts it, he…

May 24, 2012

Five years ago Deryn Relph was wearing a lab coat and testing waste water for the environment agency. Now her designs have been featured in Elle Deco and Vogue and she spends her time creating her beautiful textiles in a log cabin at the bottom of her garden. As a teenager in the 80s,…

May 10, 2012

Chantal Coady’s life has been turned upside down. It’s not the former textile designer’s forthcoming book, new shop opening, latest range of chocolates or house she is renovating in France. No, all of that is fine. All in a day’s work actually. No Coady has chosen to live upside down. In her three storey London…

April 26, 2012

On the day I am due to meet Marianne Brandi, the creative director of super-cool Danish brand Day Home, it is pouring with rain. We are to meet at Liberty, the site of her new pop-up shop and I am early. So, it transpires is she. As I splatter through the puddles, I spy…

ABOUT ME

I'm a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal and Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House (click the logo below for details) ... Welcome to my Mad House.

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